Things I absolutely won't do at home.

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Cleaning the oven.
Cleaning the car.

I get professional cleaners to do these for me because just no....life is too short.

Yes please! Bugger all and plenty of it.

What do you use instead? An air-fryer? We are a family of 5 so the air-fryer generally isn’t big enough. I cooked a moussaka in the oven last night. I’ll roast a chicken in it today.

That’s not food I eat really. Not keen on pizza and don’t eat meat. I tend to eat a lot of salads and stir fries. Haven’t made moussaka in years. If I’m cooking for a crowd I tend to do buffet style as so many dietary needs. Use the air fryer for most things.

Ironing - haven't done it for 16 years
Clean the car inside and out - I take it to the local hand wash place
Mow the lawns - I pay £20pm for someone else to do it and it's worth every single penny.
Cook at the weekend - either a takeaway/snacks/DP does it.

We eat a lot of stir fries and salads too (the roast chicken is for a salad) but still use the oven about 3-4 times a week for various things. It doesn’t get cleaned weekly though, i can’t be arsed with that! I have it professionally cleaned twice a year (June and December).

If it was that cheap here I'd have mine done all the time but it's more like £50/60 here!

Id outsource all the cooking if I could.
I dont eat any processed food so it should be easy but I hate cooking with a passion and I,m no good at it.

And no free coffee either 😂😂

God that sounds so boring. I’m with the OP, would much rather just get an oven cleaner pro in to sort it now and again instead.

The free coffee was the bit I was most offended at missing out on to be honest 🤣not only am I getting ripped off price wise, I’m not getting nice treats!

Wow that's a bargain!
Mine costs £20 inside and out (SE England) and I thought that was a bargain. It's the cheapest one in the area too. They do a fantastic job and even vacuum inside the boot.

It really depends on the size of the car.

£35 for my small Nissan Leaf!

I do most things myself, mostly because my standards are fairly low and I don’t care if it’s a bit sloppy.

Professional oven clean is worth it though, and I do like getting meal kits occasionally.

How can it be boring?
less than half a hour to clean an oven 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ where I live people charge £80 to come and clean an oven, no thank you!

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Where I live they charge a minimum of £80 to clean an oven once, I’d rather have my 5/6 holidays abroad and my weekends away than pay that!

Sounds boring to me too. I could spend half an hour a week doing it, or I could spend that half an hour doing things I find more interesting and pay someone else to clean the oven. I don’t know why other people paying for a service that they don’t want to do themselves is so baffling to you!

But surely you understand that everyone’s finances are different? Paying someone to clean our oven doesn’t affect my holiday budget. Just like paying to have my car cleaned doesn’t affect my holiday budget.
I even got someone in to deep clean our house while I was on holiday! It was lovely coming back to a spotless house.

I have to say I do love ironing. If Im miserable, fed up or in a mood its like a kind of meditation that restores balance.

I only clean my oven when I move house. So about every 10 years.

I'm the same. I hope and pray I never need to mow the lawn again.

I guess everyone's likes/dislikes are different.

Do share how £80 covers five or six holidays a year plus weekends away. Might stop a day out for me. I must be doing something wrong.

And how grubby it is. My husband used to do a job where he was driving all week. His car did get messy. When he took it to get it cleaned inside and out he was told he'd have to pay extra as it was dirty. He asked how many people pay to have clean cars cleaned. They had no answer.

I have my oven cleaned and have 19/20 holidays abroad a year!

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